BangZoom Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Red Peri was a femme too- redhead space pirate. jacket by John T. Brooks. Astounding Stories (November 1935) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 nice and bright- that, too, looks like Howard Brown... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Just bought The Red Peri off of Ebay! (thumbs u Any more femmes you can "sell" me Pat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 nice and bright- that, too, looks like Howard Brown... (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Just bought The Red Peri off of Ebay! (thumbs u Any more femmes you can "sell" me Pat? That was quick action. Not exactly on topic...but out in the hallway, just outside my door, is a 1-sheet for Double Indemnity. Whenever anyone mentions femme fatale, I always think of Barbara Stanwyk in her role in this film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I always think of Barbara Stanwyk A classy lady and a heck of an actress! That's a wonderful movie to have a poster from. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Mentallo Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 (edited) I always think of Barbara Stanwyk A classy lady and a heck of an actress! That's a wonderful movie to have a poster from. (thumbs u She really smouldered in that movie! I also loved her performance in The Bitter Tea of General Yen! (Anderson cover, Alan?) Edited April 23, 2011 by alanna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Howard Browne moonlighting from Amazing again with one of his great Paul Pine novels. classic femme cov by ? 1950 pb 1st of 1948 hb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Pocket Books produced the first line of paperbacks in the modern format starting in 1939, similar to citing Famous Funnies of 1934 as a start date for the modern mass-market comic book. Obviously both had many precursors. That makes PB’s the youngest of the paper trifecta- pulps, paperbacks, comics- and maybe the slickest. The second revolution came in 1950 with Fawcett’s Gold Medal Books. Whereas Pocket and the other publishers (Dell, Avon, Popular Library, Signet, Bantam, etc) of the 1940s dealt mostly in reprints of novels etc that had been issued in hard covers, Gold Medal specialized in PaperBack Originals (PBO’s) that were first publication. That meant they paid a little more for the content, but it gave their product an appeal others couldn’t match, and in a ‘field of dreams’ scenario ended up with fresh exciting narrative of a style that hadn’t existed before. Gold Medal was such a gold mine that caving on the comics battle can be seen in retrospect as a brilliant and highly profitable business decision… The below is a perfect example of the GM style, need I mention that the femme figured prominently in the matrix? Barye Phillips did a lot of nice covers in the ‘50s (many GM’s) and beyond, this being one. #163 1951 (GM numbering began with #99. ‘Nude in Mink’ -shown this thread last week- was #105) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 talk about trifecta: Fawcett femme formula, cool cov (has the Barye P look), and manning the typewriter, the Master of Suspense- Cornell Woolrich. 1950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Howard Browne moonlighting from Amazing again with one of his great Paul Pine novels. classic femme cov by ? 1950 pb 1st of 1948 hb Very interesting. I wasn't aware of Howard Browne's writing career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 talk about trifecta: Fawcett femme formula, cool cov (has the Barye P look), and manning the typewriter, the Master of Suspense- Cornell Woolrich. 1950 I was an enthusiastic collector of vintage paperbacks in the late 1970's / early 80's. I have the majority of Gold Medal books published from their start in 1949 through the mid 1950's. I'll take a look tomorrow and see if I can put my hands on them without having to move too many boxes to get to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 I posted a photo of Mansion of Evil a few years ago. It's a 1950 graphic novel written by Joseph Millard who scripted many comic book stories for Quality Publications in the 1940's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 This is my earliest (so far!) WEIRD TALES (March '34), which includes a reprint of the fascinating "Why Weird Tales?" editorial from 10 years prior. Terrific issue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Gorgeous copy. Interesting note was that "Why Weird Tales" was anonymously written by Otis Adelbert Kline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Gorgeous copy. Interesting note was that "Why Weird Tales" was anonymously written by Otis Adelbert Kline. Yes sir - I first read the editorial in Weinberg's book (which you recommended, and which I am thoroughly enjoying), so it's nice to have it here in pulp format. Interesting that Weinberg also picked this as one of Brundage's worst covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 That does not look like an Anderson painting. I have not yet seen Bitter Tea though I am open to seeing most anything she was in. I always think of Barbara Stanwyk A classy lady and a heck of an actress! That's a wonderful movie to have a poster from. (thumbs u She really smouldered in that movie! I also loved her performance in The Bitter Tea of General Yen! (Anderson cover, Alan?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 don't have the 12/42 Amazing, but index BZ pointed out http://www.philsp.com did. but do have the 1943 hb, dj by Fridolf Johnson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Browne's books are all new to me. Are there any titles that he wrote AND illustrated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 (edited) Howard Brown and Howard Browne are 2 different people... got this at early LA PB Con (is Dennis McMillan 1988 cov Joe Servello). Browne had retired Pine after 3 books but in mid '50s Lee Wright, mystery editor at Simon and Shuster, reminded him he owed them a book 'and why not bring back Paul Pine?' So S&S 1957 HB but Dell wanted to cut 5000 words and Wright said no so there was no original pb... it's a memorable encore. Edited April 24, 2011 by pcalhoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
